I just saw 100 Movies to See Before You Die: The Modern Classics at Yahoo! and thought it might be fun to swap opinions on the list.
How many of the 100 have you NOT seen already?
I have yet to see these 25:
1991
Beauty and the Beast
Directed by: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale
Starring: Paige O’Hara, Robbie Benson
1992
Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam)
Directed by: John Woo
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Supercop (Ging chat goo si 3: Chiu kup ging chat)
Directed by: Stanley Tong
Starring: Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung
1993
Dazed and Confused
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Starring: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey
1994
Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam)
Directed by: Wong Kar-Wai
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong
1995
Living in Oblivion
Directed by: Tom DeCillo
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener
Sense and Sensibility
Directed by: Ang Lee
Starring: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant
Toy Story
Directed by: John Lasseter
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen
1996
Ghost in the Shell (Kokaku kidotai)
Directed by: Mamoru Oshii
Starring: Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka
1997
Eve’s Bayou
Directed by: Kasi Lemmons
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan
1998
Fireworks (Hana-bi)
Directed by: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto
1999
All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)
Directed by: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penelope Cruz
2000
Yi Yi
Directed by: Edward Yang
Starring: Wu Nien-jen, Issey Ogata, Elaine Jin
2001
Donnie Darko
Directed by: Richard Kelly
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze
In the Mood For Love (Fa yeung nin wa)
Directed by: Wong Kar-Wai
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
2003
City of God (Cidade de Deus)
Directed by: Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino De Hora Phellipe, Seu Jorge
2004
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Directed by: Adam McKay
Starring: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate
Shaun of the Dead
Directed by: Edgar Wright
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield
2005
Oldboy
Directed by: Park Chan-wook
Starring: Choi Min-shik, Kang Hye-jeong
2006
Children of Men
Directed by: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Clive Owen, Michael Caine, Julianne Moore
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
Directed by: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Starring: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Muehe, Sebastian Koch
Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Maribel Verdu, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones
2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile)
Directed by: Cristian Mungiu
Starring: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov
2008
WALL-E
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Starring: Fred Willard, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Garlin
2009
Avatar
Directed by: James Cameron
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
I have only seen 18 out of the entire list. I’ve been busy the past twenty years or so…
I’ve missed about 43 of them, but many of the rest I have no desire to see.
I’ve missed 68 of them. About half of that number I’d like to see. The other half doesn’t interest me in the slightest.
Looks like I’ve seen 54 of them, and most of the ones remaining I have no desire to see. Overall, a pretty good list I guess. They’ve got some of my favorites on there: Saving Private Ryan, L.A. Confidential, The Usual Suspects, Run Lola Run, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
There are a few movies I’d add to the list: Holes, Clear and Present Danger, (500) Days of Summer, Into the Wild, Speed Racer…but overall, a decent list.
I have only seen 25 of them but they did manage to capture most of my favorites even though the pseudo-intelligencia likes to make fun of them (Titanic, Forrest Gump for example). I love Election and Best in Show as well.
I’m surprised I’ve seen 39 of them, considering I very rarely go to the movies and don’t really watch much at home. Granted, though, the most recent movie I’ve seen from that list is 2005’s 40-Year-Old Virgin.
I’ve seen 47. I’m surprised too, since I see maybe one movie a year in a theater. I like that Amelie is on the list. That, and No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood are my favorites. And Fargo.
I have not seen the following:
Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam)
Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua)
Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam)
Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge)
Living in Oblivion
Big Night
Dead Man
Ghost in the Shell (Kokaku kidotai)
Secrets & Lies
The Sweet Hearafter
Fireworks (Hana-bi)
All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)
Yi Yi
In the Mood For Love (Fa yeung nin wa)
Y Tu Mama Tambien
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile)
There’s 21 on this list that I haven’t seen, mostly for lack of interest. Depressing how identical all these lists end up being, and that someone regards Anchorman as a “movie to see before you die.”
How true! I find that the ones I have yet to see may remain that way, with a few exceptions. Unless they come around on a channel with no commercials I won’t try to see them, and I really try to avoid having to read captions for the main dialog. I’d just as soon read a book. (I like captions for English movies so I can see what was trying to be said – in case it’s garbled or otherwise hard to hear.) But I would rather focus on the visual aspects of the movie and not on the dialog.
I will leave the animated things alone on principle, even though I did enjoy Nemo.
On my list above there are maybe 5 that I will really try to see.
I’ve seen 67, missed 33 - most of them foreign films.
There are 45 on the list that I haven’t seen, about half of which I’ve never heard of. (Oldboy?)
Several I’ve meant to watch for a few years (Being John Malkovich, Slumdog Millionaire) and one today that was recommended that I’d never planned on seeing (Anchorman). I haven’t gotten around to Avatar yet and I’m not sure Inglorious Basterds is reallly my cup of tea, though I’ve not seen a Tarantino film I haven’t liked.
Also I didn’t know Scream was something that had any merit; I’d assumed it was another dumb slasher.
You’ll like Basterds if you liked Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction.
Scream is a putdown of all slasher movies and is pure comedy.
I’ve seen 100%, and not too bad as canonical stuff goes. In some cases, I think a better film by a filmmaker than the one represented is in order: Rushmore over Royal Tenenbaums, The City of Lost Children over Amelie, A Mighty Wind over Best in Show, Topsy-Turvy over Secrets & Lies, etc.
Films that are most conspicuously missing (in my mind): The Last of the Mohicans, Master and Commander, Miller’s Crossing, The New World, The Piano, Se7en, Smoke, The Truman Show, 25th Hour and anything by Emir Kusturica, Bela Tarr, Jacques Rivette, or Abbas Kiarostami. Also, there are no documentaries listed that I saw (leaving When We Were Kings, Man on Wire and others as afterthoughts).
The ones most deserving of a boot:
James Cameron films (3 listed; one is fine but 3 is redundant)
Anchorman
Dazed and Confused
Finding Nemo
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Inglorious Basterds
Michael Clayton
Misery
The Sixth Sense
I found it a little strange that Bourne Ultimatum was on there. I do think it is the best of the Bourne trilogy, but you can’t really watch it without seeing the other 2. At least, you wouldn’t get the full enjoyment out it.
Oh, and I have seen 49 of that list.
That one’s worth watching. The novel is good too.
Totally agree with ArchiveGuy that The Last of the Mohicans, Master and Commander, Miller’s Crossing should be on the list.
I have seen 31 on the list, though there are several more that I would like to eventually see at some point.
There are a few on the list that I have watched that I felt were absolutely terrible movies (Royal Tenenbaums) and a few on there that I really loved (Best In Show, Being John Malkovich) that I was a bit surprised and gratified to see make a list like this…
I have seen around 55 of them. Quite a good list ; I am pleased to see Princess Mononoke in there. Spirited Away is also good enough for inclusion but if I had to pick one Miyazaki I would go with Mononoke.
I agree Master and Commander should have been there; Gosford Park is another major omission IMO.